If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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